Sentence examples for trouncing from inspiring English sources

Mugabe, Africa's oldest leader, won with 61% of the presidential vote, trouncing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai on 34%.

Even as polls show the former secretary of state trouncing other Democratic contenders in a hypothetical primary, O'Malley has begun citing differences between him and Clinton on issues such as the minimum wage, social security benefits and a major trade deal brokered by the Obama administration that has irked progressives.

It is a trouncing of such proportion that it all but rendered redundant their own second innings, with Joe Root's momentous 180.

Fresh from trouncing Ed Miliband over the mansion tax and its unfairness to a multimillionaire celebrity singer, Klass is reported to have enraged the parents in her daughter's class by tweeting an email from one mother saying her child wanted a Kindle for her birthday, and could they all chip in.

And a lap of 'honour' after a 9-0 trouncing was still a more edifying post-escape spectacle than this.

Related: General election: Forget neck and neck, this was a terrible trouncing The Labour peer and former Downing Street adviser said Miliband had done a "magnificent job" during the campaign and he would not want to see him resign.

As in politics, so in sport: the word "Nazi" tended to spike on Twitter when Germany scored goals, and many a bad joke about "blitzkrieg" made the rounds during the trouncing of Brazil.

He has won by much larger margins than most people expected, trouncing his rival not just in heavily black states, such as Louisiana, but in ones that are almost completely white, such as Maine.

After trouncing the field in the September primary, he won comfortably on Tuesday.The question now is whether this smiling giant will match the political stature of his predecessor, Dennis Archer.

The last two chairmen had to resign because of the party's repeated disappointments at the polls.Mr Yu owed his ascendancy to a trouncing of his party in local elections in early December by the "pan-blue" alliance of the Kuomintang and the People First Party, which resulted in the resignation of his predecessor, Su Tseng-chang.

As a sample, Kasetsart University's victorious SKUBA team can be seen trouncing Japan's Owaributu in the small-robot division.